Q&A with Dr. Steven Battaglino of Battaglino Family Chiropractic

I see you practice a technique called the Gonstead method of chiropractic. What is it and what attracted you to it? Gonstead technique is named for Clarence Gonstead, a titan of chiropractic development. I’d been adjusted many times when I received my first Gonstead adjustment from Dr. Richard Thornton, a Gonstead chiropractor who’d been practicing […]

[Transcription] Hi, I’m Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Family Chiropractic. I’d like to talk about chiropractic and headaches. Headaches are a very common symptom that patients exhibit that they often refer to as normal. “Well, I normally get headaches once or twice a week” or sometimes they’re daily. And this becomes their new normal where […]

[Transcription] Hi, I’m Dr. Steve Battaglino with Battaglino Family Chiropractic. I want to talk for a second about chiropractic and migraine headaches. Specifically, what is causing the migraine and how chiropractic plays a role in getting rid of that migraine? So, let’s look at the spine structurally. This is the back of the spine, this is […]

Hi, I’m Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Family Chiropractic. I want to talk for a minute about chiropractic and sciatica. Specifically, what causes sciatica and how characteristic can help get rid of it. So, let’s look at the body structurally for a second. This is the spine. This is the lower back or lumbar region. […]

[Transcription] Hi, I’m Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Family Chiropractic. I want to talk a little bit about chiropractic and whiplash. Specifically, what whiplash is, what causes it, and how chiropractic can help heal from whiplash. So, when you’re in a car accident and you get hit from behind. Let’s say you’re parked or at […]

Hi, I’m Dr. Steve Battaglino with Battaglino Family Chiropractic. I want to talk about custom orthotics. These are inserts that go in your shoe to help with flat feet. So, when patients, when people have flat arches, it puts a lot of stress on the arch of the foot, the ankles, the knees and the […]

Hi Dr. Steve Battaglino here. Can chiropractic remove stress from my life? Well no it can’t. We’re always going to have stress in our lives and we have a lot of different types. We’ve got physical stress, chemical stress and emotional stress. And they are surrounding us both in our external environment and our internal […]

Hi, I’m Dr. Steve Battaglino with Battaglino Family Chiropractor. Everybody knows that chiropractor is great for getting rid of pain. back pain, neck pain, headaches, things like that. But, what chiropractors constantly try to educate your patients about is the benefit of chiropractic care beyond just pain and other symptoms like that. So, it all […]

Dr. Steve Battaglino here. I wanted to share with you some x-rays on a patient that came in after a car accident. She had some neck pain. The neck pain went away pretty quickly, even though you could tell there were some injury there. And we can see it on X-ray, I’ll show you in […]

This is a good question. It seems like when you’re sleeping, you’re laying down, you’re resting, that pain and those kind of symptoms would be less. But in some patients, they have worse back pain when they’re sleeping. So let’s take a moment to look at the final structure. This is the spine. You can […]